Dividing Teams

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"God?"

Everyone looked at him in surprise. For a person to call himself god, he must be extremely powerful, right?

Why does it seem like Liam can control this person under his hand?

"So, what are we going to do now?" Nami asked while pointing at her Log Pose.

"Move forward! We will soon find a gate." Liam answered. He didn't have to tell why he knew all these things.

And, his crew didn't care either.

As they made their way toward Heaven's Gate, they saw a man riding on a strange thing rushing toward them.

He was holding a cannon in his hand, trying to shoot at any moment.

"You should simply stay down."

[Mini Galaxy Impact]

Liam clenched his fist, armament haki covering his arm. He punched out and a massive shockwave burst out of his attack.

Bang!

The shockwave moved toward that man before even he could make a move. Upon getting struck by that move, he fell on the cloud and slowly disappeared into the clouds.

"Who was that?" Usopp asked.

"I don't know." Liam shrugged his shoulders and pointed in another direction.

"Why not ask him?"

Following the direction of his finger pointing at, they saw an old man running towards them on a horse.

"Hello, my name is Gan Fall. I am a mercenary." Gan Fall finally reached in front of them and calmly replied.

"Hello Gan Fall, my name is Liam. These are my partners. We have just arrived in Sky Island from Grandline. Can you tell us more about Sky Island?"

Liam skipped basic information and immediately went for the important information.

"So, do you want to know about Sky Island? For that, you have to go through Heaven's Gate, and there, someone will take you to Sky Island."

"Just follow the rules and if you ever need my help, just call me through this. I will only charge you 1 Million Extols." Gan Fall didn't tell them about the information about Sky Island.

Instead, he directed them toward the Heaven's Gate.

Hearing his words, Liam frowned.

"Alright then!"

He was a bit dissatisfied with Gan Fall's information but he didn't take it dearly. Instead, he went to Sky Island with his group.

They crossed the Heaven Gate and after confirming their sightseeing to the Sky Island, they got a free travel to the Angel Beach of the Sky Island.

"So, Liam, do you have any plans for this place? You said that Luffy needs to fight someone, right?"

Nami turned to Liam and asked.

"Indeed! We will be divided into three teams. The first team would be Luffy and Usopp. The second team will be Sanji, Zoro, and Chopper. The third team will be Nami, Robin, Vivi, and I."

"Wait, why did you get to be with three ladies?" Sanji immediately interrupted him and shouted.

"That's because you need battles to improve your strength. Don't forget you haven't comprehended Haki yet." Liam looked at him and continued to explain.

"Here, you have a better chance of comprehending Observation Haki and if you try better, you might be able to use Armament Haki as well. Although Chopper is a doctor, he has great strength so if he can awaken Haki, it would be great."

"Three of you have only one task, block every single enemy except for Enel. Usopp and Luffy will be tasked to fight Enel."

"Wait, wait, why am I fighting with Luffy?" Usopp immediately raised his head in fear and asked.

"That's because you have already awakened Observation Haki. If you train your Observation Haki with Luffy, you might be able to awaken Future Sight or even Long Distance Observation Haki."

"As for me, I will be training with Poneglyph."

"Huh?"

Everyone looked at him in confusion as they didn't understand what he meant by that.

"Listen, Poneglyphs have be around for eight hundred years bearing the history of the Void Century. Isn't it surprising to all of you that the World Government never tried to destroy these?"

At this moment, Robin realized something as she immediately said.

"So, you want to use the indestructible stones to train your strength."

"To be exact, my Armament Haki. Right now, my Armament Haki is very close to reaching the state of Emission. And, if you try harder, I might even be able to reach Internal Destruction."

"Liam, are these the Advance State of Armament Haki?" Zoro asked.

Liam nodded his head.

"Of course, Luffy is going to train his Observation Haki with Enel. How can I lag behind? Right now, I don't have a perfect opponent to train Observation Haki to Advance Level but I do have a perfect tool to reach Advance Armament."

"But, can't you train with Enel to improve your Observation Haki as well?" Sanji asked.

Hearing his words, everyone looked at him in confusion.

"Yeah Liam, why don't we fight Enel together?" Luffy also asked in confusion.

"Remember what I said before, he has eating Rumble Rumble Fruit and can turn into Lightning and control it. To reach Advance Observation Haki, you must push yourself to the absolute limit."

"But, there is one thing that you are missing. Enel doesn't have Advance Observation Haki but it is still stronger than ours. So, even if we try to predict his attacks, it is still lightning-fast attacks which we wouldn't be able to dodge that easily."

"But, Luffy is different. He doesn't need to dodge those attacks because of fear but rather he needs to dodge those attacks to improve his Observation Haki."

"If we try to fight Enel with Armament Haki, we would be able to hurt him but he would still be faster. So, in the battle, we need to preserve our Haki as much as possible."

"Otherwise with his speed, power, and Observation Haki, people like us won't last long but Luffy is different."

At this moment, Sanji interjected.

"Luffy is made out of rubber so lightning-based attacks won't work. But just to improve his Observation Haki, he would constantly train his Observation Haki."

"In long battles, we often overuse our Haki. But if Luffy doesn't need Armament Haki to protect himself from Enel's attacks, his Haki can last much longer which would give him enough time to improve his Observation Haki."

"Is that what you are trying to say, Liam?"

Hearing his words, Liam smiled and said.

"It is indeed Sanji who can understand things better. Just as he said, Luffy needs to prolong this battle as much as possible in order to properly reach Advance Observation Haki."

"If I fight Enel, I will be able to defeat him but I won't last long like Luffy since either I would need to finish him fast or simply fight until my Haki runs out. And unlike Luffy, I don't have passive protection from Lightning."

Hearing his words, Luffy slammed his fists together.

"Alright! I will definitely master Advance Observation Haki in the fight with this guy called Enel."

Hearing his words, everyone smiled as the Ship finally landed near Angel's Beach.

"Guys before we go into a battle, let's enjoy our time on this beautiful beach!"

Liam said as he jumped from the ship into the clouds.

Others also followed him quickly and they started playing on the beach until they heard the sound coming from afar.

They saw an angel playing an instrument. After they found her, they started chatting and through her, Straw Hats learned a lot more about Sky Island.

"By the way Conis, where does this guy called Enel live?" Luffy asked with a hearty tone but his words stunned Conis.

She started shaking in fear and even her father who had arrived a few minutes ago started shaking in fear.

"Relax, you guys! We won't bring any kind of trouble for you. Luffy, don't ask such questions to these people!"

Liam scolded Luffy and then tried to calm down father and daughter.

Hearing his words, Conis and her father calmed down a bit but they were still fearful of the god.

Soon after that, they visited Conis' house where they started talking about Shells and how they could get these.

While they started talking about it, they soon noticed a strange group of people coming toward them.

Conis and her father immediately recognized them as they were White Berets who were the law enforcers of Sky Island.

"Mr. Liam, did you do something wrong?" Conis asked in a frightened tone.

"Oh! Don't worry about them. Guys, we have already finished doing everything. Now, it's time to spread out."

"First Team will go and fight Enel. The second Team will help them go there while Third Team will be responsible for finding gold and a golden bell. Luffy, if you want to ring that bell, try to achieve Future Sight as soon as possible."

Saying so, they walked out of the house leaving the frightened Conis and her father inside the house.

"Wait, what about Nami?" Vivi asked.

"Third Team will wait for her. During that time, Vivi and Robin will be responsible for dealing with these guards."

Liam replied as he pointed at the people crawling toward them.